Innovation & R&D

PP2P Technologies develops a patented hierarchical peer-to-peer communication protocol, designed in France, that removes the need for a central server in enterprise collaboration tools. A sovereign infrastructure building block at the crossroads of cybersecurity, distributed systems and embedded artificial intelligence.

French deeptech Patent filed (INPI) Zero Trust architecture 100% local AI

An original multi-layer architecture

Where collaboration suites rely on a single cloud server (a point of failure and of data capture), the PP2P protocol organises the company's workstations into a self-balancing hierarchical topology, with no central point whatsoever.

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Self-organising hierarchical topology

Nodes organise themselves automatically into levels (root → relays → leaves) with load balancing, election and automatic failover. No manual network configuration.

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Temporal communication bus — the PP2P "trains"

Messages travel in clocked logical convoys (metadata, transactions, events, messaging, files), each with its own priority, lifetime and encryption. This patented mechanism guarantees ordering and prevents congestion without any central coordinator.

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5-layer Zero Trust security

Independent encryption of transport (mutual TLS over private X.509 certificates), application content (AES-256-GCM), sensitive fields, data at rest, and cryptographic signatures for critical actions. No node is implicitly trusted; every message is timestamped and replay-protected.

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Enterprise cryptographic governance

Identities rooted in a per-company internal certificate authority: roles carried by certificates (management, administration, employee), dual validation of sensitive actions, immediate revocation propagated across the whole network.

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Resilience and distributed state

Segmented company directory synchronised peer to peer, signed state snapshots, automatic reconstruction after an outage: the network keeps running in degraded mode (LAN only) and reconciles when connectivity returns.

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Sovereign embedded AI

Language models executed locally on the company's machines (correction, summarising, retrieval-augmented document search), with no data transferred to foreign APIs.

◉ ROOT — root node (management)
◎ L1     ◎ L1     ◎ L1 — self-elected relays
○ L2 ○ L2 ○ L2 ○ L2 ○ L2 ○ L2 — employee workstations
Self-balancing hierarchical topology — automatic failover if a relay goes down

Protected intellectual property

The core of the protocol — the temporal organisation of communications into secure hierarchical convoys — is covered by a patent filed with the INPI (French patent office). The company develops its entire software stack in-house (protocol, application-level encryption, business applications, embedded AI), with no dependency on any third-party platform.

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R&D programme — 24 months

The product is operational and commercially available. The research programme now targets scale and certification, to make the PP2P protocol a sovereign infrastructure standard.

0 – 6 months
External security audit & hardening

Independent audit of the protocol and cryptographic implementations, third-party penetration testing, fixes and publication of a security report.

3 – 12 months
Scaling beyond 1,000 nodes

Work on multi-level balancing, directory segmentation and state propagation for large organisations and multi-site federations.

6 – 18 months
Multi-site & inter-company edition

Secure federation of several PP2P networks (subsidiaries, partners) with cryptographic compartmentalisation and cross-governance — already prototyped on inter-company tunnels.

12 – 24 months
Certification & compliance

Preparation of a recognised security qualification (CSPN-type) and formal alignment with NIS2 requirements for regulated sectors.

12 – 24 months
Extending industrial protection

Extension of the patent to Europe (EPO) and PCT study, consolidation of the intellectual-property portfolio.

Projected R&D budget — 24 months: €500,000

  • 2 R&D engineers (18 months): €210,000
  • R&D technical direction (founder, 24 months): €90,000
  • European patent extension (EPO) + PCT: €60,000
  • Certification & compliance: €40,000
  • Contingency & overheads: €40,000
  • Infrastructure & security: €35,000
  • External security audit: €25,000

Mixed funding: ≈ 50% (€250,000) sought through public innovation programmes, remainder self-funded by licence revenue. Detailed breakdown, milestones and hiring plan available in the full dossier, on request.

A project aligned with innovation programmes

The PP2P programme fits the criteria of French and European innovation-support schemes.

Proprietary technological innovation

Original protocol developed in-house, with no critical third-party component.

Established industrial property

Patent filed with the INPI, European extension scheduled.

Digital-sovereignty impact

A structural alternative to non-European collaboration suites.

Addressable European market

SMEs, regulated professions and the public sector across the European Union.

A market and sovereignty challenge

The need for sovereign alternatives to American collaboration suites is massive and growing.

> 80%

of European companies' data is hosted on clouds subject to extra-European legislation (Cloud Act).

~ 10%/yr

growth of the global cybersecurity market, driven by regulation (GDPR, NIS2) and the rise in attacks.

4% of revenue

is the ceiling for GDPR penalties in case of data-protection failures — a direct risk for every SME using third-party clouds.

6 to 8 tools

SaaS products stacked on average per SME (messaging, video, tasks, storage…), i.e. tens of thousands of euros in annual subscriptions and as many attack surfaces.

Institutional partners & investors

Detailed technical dossier, protocol demonstration and full roadmap available on request.

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